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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities. This includes papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving special groups, social factors and disparities linked to issues in health and...
Unraveling U.S. Health Care
A Personal Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health care decision...
Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2019
The contributors to this latest volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care investigate macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving the socially disadvantaged and underserved. Looking specifically at the factors impacting on health and health care differentials, this book is...
If You Are Well
Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
IF You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer is a guide to help your employees make the choices and lifestyle changes necessary to stay healthy and out of the health care system, as well as understand how their personal wellness and health care spending habits contribute...
Health Care in Canada
A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.
Many...
Nortin Hadler's 4-Volume Healthcare Omnibus E-Book
Includes Worried Sick, Stabbed in the Back, Rethinking Aging, and The Citizen Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice...
Digital Medicine
Health Care in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:
the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of...
The Best Care Possible
A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority...
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer
Families Foundation USA Guide to Quality and Cost
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"Admirable . . . clearly written, well organized . . . easy and helpful." --Washington Post
"This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health." --Dr. J. Larry Brown, Professor of Nutrition and Health Policy School of Nutrition, Tufts University
"The...